Norman Tooker was born in New Jersey in 1884 where he became a decent football player at the Newark Academy. In 1902 Tooker enrolled at Princeton University where he also took part in track & field and wrestling. He specialised in the high jump for the Princeton Tigers where he won one of the multiple non-medal events that were contested as part of the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He graduated in 1906 before receiving a PhD in medicine from Columbia University in 1910. Tooker then briefly ran his own medical practice before returning to Princeton in 1915. At the university he served as the Associate Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education until 1933. He later bought a large estate in Williamstown, Massachusetts, which he eventually sold to the Nobel Prize winning author Sinclair Lewis in 1946.
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